Chile Pepper Fun Fact - Colorado vs. New Mexico
My Chile Peppers are better. No way, mine are way better than yours...
The heated rivalry between Colorado and New Mexico is a hot one! It’s over Hatch versus Pueblo chile. And it's a heated debate... Heated, get it.
The battle began when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis shared on Facebook that New Mexico’s Hatch chile is “inferior” to Pueblo’s on a post about Whole Foods selling Pueblo chile in the Rocky Mountain region.
Polis then told The Sante Fe New Mexican that Pueblo chile is “the best in the world.”
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham fired back on Twitter and said, “If Pueblo chile were any good, surely it would have been on national shelves before now. But if Gov. Polis wants to go chile to chile, I assure him New Mexico can bring the heat.”
The debate re-ignited on social media when Governor Jared Polis took to Facebook to announce that Whole Foods would carry Pueblo chiles. He wrote, "New Mexico stores will unfortunately not be offering the best chile and will instead keep offering inferior New Mexico chile." Those were fighting words.